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| The Great Rock of Grudges |
The Dwarf Grudge Thrower - originally known as a Rock Lobber when it came out with the 1999-2000 range. I reckon this was the high point for Dwarf war machines: more detailed and stylised than the earlier ones, and better than the current 'without-wheels' range.
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| "Ye cannae push a Thrower with no wheels ... you'll have to toss it!" |
The crew are a nice addition, each using tools unique to a stone thrower, rather than generic loaders: a mallet, a rock (naturally) and a sextant.
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| Some kind of range finder anyway. That's the sextant of my knowledge. |
These were also repainted to match the blue scheme. I had a theme of blue = traditional blackpowder (cannons), red = experimental machines (flame cannons, organ guns, gyrocopters), green = torsion machines (rock lobbers and bolt throwers), all matched against engineering yellow. But when I took a step back, it looked like a travelling circus, so I repainted the green into blue.
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| I bear no grudge. Apart from this one, obviously. |
When it came to rebasing them, I added a bit of freehand - there was a golden plaque on the front of the machine that was just crying out for some runes (plucked at random from the Engineering Runes page of the rulebook).
I also added some grudge runes on the rocks themselves - the equivalent of chalking insults onto artillery shells.
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| Before: square stones |
As well as switching to round, I also upgraded from a 50mm to a 60mm base - which was just as well, because the Grudge Thrower was just about clinging onto the edges.
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| As a small rock, I used to be frightened, but now I'm a little boulder. |
That's enough artillery for a while - next up: more beasties!
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